Andrea Petkoviae

Articles de cet auteur (7)

Despite lack of reforms, Croatia gets go-ahead to join EU

Following lengthy negotiations, the European Commission finally gave Croatia a green light to become the 28th member state of the European Union. However, many analysts agree that this decision has more to do with politics than with real reforms as the country is still fighting high levels of (…)

vendredi 5 août 2011

Lampedusa, the stone in Europe’s shoes

Since the beginning of the year more than 20,000 illegal immigrants have arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa, mostly from Tunisia, but also from other revolutionized countries overcrowding the island and causing « desperate » living conditions for both the islanders and the immigrants. (…)

lundi 25 avril 2011

Europe and its common defence policy in light of events in Libya and Ivory Coast

Current developments in Libya and Ivory Coast have again raised the issue of common defence policy in order to send a European intervention forces to these troubled areas if necessary. However, particularly in the case of Libya, the developments have only demonstrated that Europe lacks the joint (…)

mercredi 30 mars 2011

European Parliament Calls for Immediate Release of the Chinese Civil Rights Activist Hu Jia

Recent reports have shown that the health of the imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, symbol of the resistance to Beijing’s authority and winner of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2008, has been deteriorating. Hu has been hospitalised in Beijing (…)

mardi 25 mai 2010

Chronique des droits de l’Homme en Biélorussie

Après avoir été une République intégrée au bloc communiste durant 70 ans la Biélorussie déclara sa souveraineté en juillet 1990 et son indépendance en août 1991. En janvier 1994 le parlement biélorusse renversa le président réformiste Stanislav Shushkevich en réaction à son soutien pour de (…)

vendredi 19 mars 2010

From Freedom to Death : A Narrative of Human Rights in Belarus

Having been a USSR constituent republic for seven decades, Belarus declared its sovereignty in July 1990 and its independence in August 1991. In January 1994 the country’s Parliament ousted the reform-oriented President Stanislav Shushkevich to protest against his support for market economics. (…)

mercredi 17 mars 2010

Haiti Tragedy and the EU’s Response - A Reflection on the EU’s Disaster Response Procedure

Hours after the lethal earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Haiti on 12th January killing more than 200 000 people and leaving more than a million homeless, the European Union announced that it would provide €3 million for immediate relief activities. Many considered the EU (…)

mardi 16 février 2010